Bill Text: NY S02747 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes retired firefighters to be employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers without reduction of their retirement benefits.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-01 - referred to governmental employees [S02747 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02747-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2747--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LARKIN, BONACIC, DeFRANCISCO, PANEPINTO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions -- recommitted to the Commit- tee on Civil Service and Pensions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to authorizing retired firefighters to be employed as instructor of fire sciences by a career and technical education center without diminution of his or her retirement benefits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding 2 a new section 214-c to read as follows: 3 § 214-c. Employment of certain retired persons who retired from fire 4 service. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or the 5 provisions of any state or local law or charter to the contrary, no 6 retired person who retired from fire service as a member of the New York 7 state and local police and fire retirement system or the New York fire 8 department pension fund, and who is employed by a career and technical 9 education center as an instructor in a fire science program approved by 10 the education department, shall have his or her retirement allowance or 11 benefits suspended or reduced because of compensation earned by such 12 retired person from service as a fire science instructor. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill will allow retired firefighters of the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System or the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund to work as a fire science instructor in a program approved by the New York State Department of Education and to continue to receive their retirement benefit. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02174-03-6
